National Science Foundation Workshop on Biomedical Informatics, 2007

December 3rd: Arrival Encouraged for All Out-of-State Participants

  • 6P: Dinner

December 4th: Workshop Opening Day

  • 9A: Welcome greeting and framing of the event: Javed Mostafa (UNC at Chapel Hill)
  • 9:30A: Keynote I: Charles Jaffe, MD (CEO, Health Level 7)
  • 10:30A: Break
  • 10:45A: Panel I: Semantic Interoperability
    Tara Payne (Ohio State), Padmini Srinivasan (Iowa), and Vipul Kashyap (Partners Healthcare Systems)
  • 12P: Lunch
  • 1:30P: Keynote II: Rebecca Kush (CEO, CDISC)
  • 2:30P: Break
  • 2:45P: Panel II: Data Architectures
    Philip Payne (Ohio State), Alexandros Labridinis (Pittsburgh), and Sudarshan Chawathe (Maine)
  • 3:45P: Start break-out sessions. Opportunity for birds-of-feather discussion by all participants.
    Three sessions will be conducted simultaneously on:
    1) Interoperability and architecture (combined)
    2) Data management, access, and mining, and
    3) Privacy, security, services, and social issues.
    A participant will be selected to lead each session and report back on the highlights of discussions next day.
  • 4:45P: Break-out sessions end (reporting will be done on the following day)

December 4th: Workshop Opening Day Contd.

  • 6P: Dinner
  • 7P: Poster Session + System Demo (Panel III) + Mingle Time

There will be a facilitator for the poster session ensuring that this session runs smoothly. Each poster presenter will be available during this time to discuss their work. The core group in the system demo panel will be led by Judge Schonfeld and guests invited by him. Other individuals interested in presenting a live demo of a system are encouraged to bring their system on a laptop (we will not be able to provide any machines).

December 5th

  • 8:30A: Keynote III: Amit Sheth (Lexis Nexis Ohio Eminent Scholar & Professor, Wright State U.)
  • 9:30A: Break
  • 9:45A: Panel IV: Data Management, Access, and Mining
    Vasant Honavar (Iowa State), Jake Chen (IU-Indianapolis), Judge Schonfeld (CEO, CureHunter), and Landen Bain (CDISC)
  • 11A: Break
  • 11:15A: Keynote IV: Joel Saltz (Davis Endowed Chair of Cancer, Ohio State)
  • 12:15P: Lunch
  • 1:30P: Panel V: Data Sharing, Privacy, Security, and Social Challenges
    William Hersh (Oregon HSU), Noshir Contractor (Northwestern), Kalpana Shankar (Indiana Univ.)
  • 2:30P: Highlights from Break-out sessions and Future Challenges
  • 3P: Conclusion

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  • 4P: Meeting for members of the organizing committee to draft the white-paper and report back to NSF on deliverables

For more details on the main themes of the workshop and deliverables please see biomedweb.info

December 6th: Out-of-State Participants Depart

  • 8A: Breakfast
  • 12P: All participants must check-out from Menucha

Meet the speakers (at least online!)